Chapter 515 Drinking Wine and Chatting About Farming

Treatment and recovery take time, and in this regard, Zhou Ze was actually okay, after all, he had experience.

Back then, he remembered it was the time he clashed with the Green-Clothed Goddess.

Falling from the rooftop and landing in the garbage heap below, being dragged into its nest by a bunch of wild cats and dogs called by the little monkey, since then, he seemed to have opened the door to a new world.

He also gradually began to accept the fact that there was another person living inside his body, and, strictly speaking,

He, Zhou Ze,

was just a gatekeeper.

Thanks to him, after several temperings, this body, although not as perverted as a real zombie, like Yingying and the little boy, unchewable and unbreakable, the potential that was stimulated was still much stronger than that of ordinary people.

Three days after being hospitalized, Zhou Ze was able to put on normal clothes, smoke a cigarette in the small pavilion downstairs in the hospital, and contemplate life.

Lawyer An was more tormented and troubled. The effects of food poisoning were indeed passing quickly, but then gallstones were discovered.

Originally, Lawyer An was thinking of returning to Tongcheng early to find Little Black Girl, but later news came from Lao Zhang that the person had been found.

Lao Dao carried her on his back and went to a plantation to pick lycoris fruit; Little Black Girl couldn't move her legs, so Lao Dao carried her. As a result, while picking, Lao Dao was confused by something inside.

Lao Zhang found the car through surveillance video, and then found the little monkey by the ridge next to the car. Led by the little monkey, he entered the garden and carried Lao Dao and Little Black Girl out.

This could only be regarded as a small episode,

A thrilling but ultimately harmless episode.

Little Black Girl was settled, and the lycoris also had a home.

Lawyer An simply had a gallstone surgery at this hospital on Zhou Ze's advice; a minor surgery, the problem was not very serious.

However, Zhou Ze was a little puzzled, could it be that Lawyer An drank too much expired coffee and caused it?

With a cigarette in his mouth,

Watching the passing crowds,

Actually,

There were quite a few patients in this hospital, but they were all minor ailments. From the perspective of a doctor, there was no challenge and not much professional fulfillment.

The overall feeling of this hospital was also lifeless, very similar to this small county.

Young people, those with brains, who could leave, had all left, leaving fewer and fewer people behind.

This was a microcosm of the entire China now. Sometimes Zhou Ze was thinking that when he was in school, he often talked about the early days of reform or the 1990s, which were the times of waves and turbulence.

But in fact,

If viewed from the perspective of ordinary people,

The position he was in now, he might not realize it, but he was also amidst the waves.

Boss Zhou was not a thinker, nor a philosopher, purely because he was lazy, did little work, and had enough free time to think wildly.

Another reason was,

The nurses in this hospital were generally older, and the few young ones were all very flat-chested.

After a man cuts off his fantasies in that regard, his realm of thought will suddenly be elevated.

Especially when smoking after, everything like fame, fortune, worldliness, and the workplace seemed to fade into a light breeze.

He threw away the cigarette butt and stretched his foot to stomp it out.

The little zombie sitting diagonally in front of Zhou Ze turned his head,

Silently watching Zhou Ze take out another cigarette, light it,

Then he retracted his head.

Zhou Ze was sitting in the pavilion,

He was sitting on the steps of the pavilion.

From a distance, they looked like father and son, except that the clothes of this father and son were a bit shabby and mismatched,

The father's appearance with a cigarette in his mouth was a standard lazy image,

I don't know how many people passed by and saw this scene and regretted in their hearts how such a cute child could have such a dad.

He didn't change his clothes. The original clothes were a bit torn, so he asked Yingying to wash them and wore them.

Boss Zhou was used to being poor and knew that the clothes Yingying bought for him were very expensive. They were just a little torn and wrinkled, it didn't matter.

The little boy's clothes couldn't be washed and worn again because they were too badly damaged. Zhou Ze asked Yingying to buy a set of children's clothing at the small stall selling clothes at the entrance of the hospital.

It was a bit rustic and a bit silly,

The little boy just wore it.

This child wasn't picky,

Zhou Ze was very satisfied.

"Hey!"

Lawyer An also came down,

Having just had surgery, he seemed to be quite energetic.

The hospital gown was a bit too big, and Lawyer An had recently lost a lot of weight. The wide clothes kept blowing in the afternoon breeze, like a scarecrow placed by a farmer in the fields to scare away crows.

But the scarecrow didn't have the consciousness of being a scarecrow. Zhou Ze knew that he had been flirting with a female director of the hospital recently. According to An Scarecrow's theory, he didn't plan to eat, but chatting with someone experienced to relieve boredom was okay.

Old An was such a person. Feng Si'er said that he used to have a woman he liked, and he loved her very deeply, to the point where he didn't even want Feng Si.

But Lawyer An's image didn't fit the setting of a love saint at all,

Drinking, gambling, and whoring, he enjoyed himself to the fullest, without any sense of guilt, as if he really let go when he said he would.

On the other hand, the little kid sitting on the steps in front of him,

That whole body of melancholy and sorrow,

Made Zhou Ze want to kick him several times.

Lawyer An sat in the pavilion. Yingying was not there, she went out to buy groceries, preparing to cook something special for dinner, stewed chicken soup.

Taking a cigarette from Zhou Ze, Lawyer An lit it. He couldn't say he cherished this body that much, he actually just went with the flow.

The fact was also true,

Most young people, even middle-aged people, in this world didn't know how to cherish their bodies,

You couldn't expect a person to pay any more attention to a secondhand body.

The two had only smoked half a cigarette,

When a middle-aged man in a hospital gown ran out of the pavilion, wearing an aluminum pot on his head, shouting and yelling.

Soon, several people ran out, apparently his family, and dragged him back.

"There's something wrong with his brain, he came to the hospital to have his appendix removed," Lawyer An said.

"It seems your mistress talks to you quite a bit."

"We just chat and hold hands, nothing else," Lawyer An shook his head, exhaling a smoke ring.

"She's not willing?"

"I'm not willing."

Lawyer An smiled and added, "Conserving energy."

After a while,

The middle-aged man wearing the aluminum pot ran over again, giving Zhou Ze and the others sitting in the pavilion a lecture, as if he were a leader giving a speech. Oh no, his air was more imposing than a leader, like a god teaching the people.

Then,

His family chased him out again, this time taking a rope and tying him back.

"He became obsessed with qigong and went crazy, and has been crazy ever since," Lawyer An threw the cigarette butt on the ground and sighed, "Oh, right, you were still young at that time, you probably don't know."

Lawyer An was indeed a few decades older than Zhou Ze.

"Back then, the whole country was in a qigong craze, and qigong masters could enter high society.

Ordinary people, peddlers, and officials all believed in it. Originally, some people didn't believe it, but they couldn't resist the propaganda, so they all believed it.

Hey, I remember your bookstore had a lot of xuanhuan (fantasy) and xiuzhen (cultivation) novels, I flipped through them when I had nothing to do before..."

Zhou Ze hadn't experienced that era, but he knew about the aluminum pot on the head. It seemed to be some kind of qigong practice, wearing an aluminum pot could receive information from aliens and so on.

Zhou Ze had seen a photo before,

In the photo, a hall was packed with people,

Everyone was wearing aluminum pots on their heads and practicing qigong together.

It was hard to imagine that it would happen in the 1990s, that people in that era would suddenly collectively become so ignorant.

"Actually, it's almost the same, really almost the same." Lawyer An didn't know what he was thinking, and suddenly sighed, reaching out to Zhou Ze for a cigarette. Zhou Ze threw the empty cigarette pack on the ground.

Lawyer An looked at the little boy and said, "Kid, go buy a pack of cigarettes."

The little boy glanced at Lawyer An, his eyes chilling.

Lawyer An hesitated.

Zhou Ze took money from his wallet and handed it to him, "Zhonghua."

The little boy took the money and left.

"Tch."

Lawyer An curled his lips.

Then, Lawyer An pointed to his head and said, "Do you think no one understood that these were all scams back then? Do you think everyone was stupid back then?

Especially since the United States had landed on the moon decades earlier, and everyone still believed in qigong?"

Zhou Ze shook his head.

"Actually, smart people were unwilling to speak out, and didn't dare to speak out, because whoever spoke out would be swept away by the torrent;

The biggest problem with smart people is that they cherish their lives.

The biggest advantage of smart people is that they know when to make themselves look like idiots.

Actually,

It's very similar to the situation in Hell now. Many people actually know the problems of the Yin Si (underworld), and the ghost soldiers below have begun to be restless, those looking for backers are looking for backers, and those taking private jobs are taking private jobs.

But no one dares to say it, and no one dares to shout it out. Everyone is staying in this tall building, but everyone is waiting for this tall building to collapse.

On the day it collapses, those living on the top floor with gardens and balconies can fly away by helicopter.

Most people in the building are going to die, but everyone chooses to wait for death, not wanting to be the one who is thrown out of the window and falls to their death before the building collapses."

"Not a single person?" Zhou Ze was a little curious.

"There are." Lawyer An shook his head. Today, he was talking a lot, even revealing some past that he didn't want to talk about before, "Back then, I was helping them deliver messages, and that's how I got into trouble."

Lawyer An pursed his lips,

"The Yin Si is orderly, the laws of death are merciless."

Standing up and twisting his waist, Lawyer An sighed,

"I really like this sentence."

The little boy came back,

With cigarettes and change in his hand.

Zhou Ze opened the cigarettes, took out one for Lawyer An, and also bit one himself.

The two lit them in turn,

Took a puff,

Then,

Put down the cigarettes, looked at each other,

And threw the cigarettes in their hands on the ground together.

The little boy pouted when he saw this.

They bought fake cigarettes.

"Should I go and reason with him?" The little boy picked up the cigarette Zhou Ze threw on the ground.

Zhou Ze taught him that he shouldn't use violence often in the future, and he should learn to restrain himself.

When encountering something,

You have to reason.

"En." Zhou Ze nodded, with a gratified look as if the child could be taught.

The little boy nodded, ready to go.

"Wait a minute," Zhou Ze called out.

"En?"

The little boy stopped.

"After you're done reasoning, break a leg while you're at it."